Category: Biographies
Autobiographical--My Wanderjahr--First Glimpse of Servians--Rome--A Prospective Mother-in-law--Sad Result of eating Chops--A Spanish Poet--The Chance of a Lifetime--How I seized it--Garcia's Gold Watch--The Via del Poppo--Off to London--Engaged by the Turkish Government--Vienn...
Autobiographical--My Wanderjahr--First Glimpse of Servians--Rome--A Prospective Mother-in-law--Sad Result of eating Chops--A Spanish Poet--The Chance of a Lifetime--How I seized...
19. CHAPTER III.Off to Widdin--Strong Fortifications--Osman Pasha in Command--The Kalafatians at Work--Dr. Black--A Discreditable Englishman--Shooting on Sight--An Arrest and a Release--"Life o...
27. CHAPTER X.Lauri and the Sausage--A Diet of "Poiled Peans"--The Ways of a _Parlementaire_--Politeness on the Battle-field--Indefatigable Burrowing by the Turks--Skobeleff's Annoyance--A Vi...
31. CHAPTER XIV.Convalescence--_Membra Disjecta_--Mortality among the Medical Staff--"En haut Mystère, en bas Misère"--Arrival of Dr. Stoker and Dr. Stiven--A Desperate Journey--In the Hands of...
26. CHAPTER IX.The Third Battle of Plevna--Turkish Genius for Fortification--How the Redoubts were built--Description of an Earthwork--Sleeping Underground--Living Men in Holes in the Clay--Th...
23. CHAPTER VIITalks with my Patients--A Candid Kurd--Grim Confessions--How he killed his Enemy--Dr. Robert's Cave of Refuge--He loses his Dinner--The Spy's Death--Canards in the Town--The Sec...
30. CHAPTER XIII.The Scourge of Typhus--Pyæmia and Pneumonia--Terrible Cold--Outposts frozen to Death--Fall of Kars--The March of the Wounded--One Hundred and Eighty Miles over the Snow--Ghastly...
21. CHAPTER V.The Town of Plevna--A Natural Stronghold--_Le Petit Village_--The Gypsies' Warning--Dr. Robert--An Expatriated Bacchanalian--We attend a Banquet--The First Battle of Plevna--An...
29. CHAPTER XII.Life in Constantinople--Sir Collingwood Dickson--Visit to the Seraskierat--Roving Englishmen--A Typical Adventurer--War Correspondents--General Berdan--Colonel Valentine Baker--...
28. CHAPTER XI.Some of my Hospital Cases--A Death from Jaundice--Small-pox and Typhoid Fever--Hospital Gangrene--Waiting for the Burial Parties--Horrible Depression--I am slightly wounded--Tur...
20. CHAPTER IV.Declaration of War with Russia--An Ominous Silence--The First Shot--An Interrupted Luncheon--Under Fire at last--Disappearance of the Inhabitants--A Move Underground--Running th...
32. Chapter XV.Helping Sick Russians--A Squalid Scene--Work of the Russian Doctors--Melikoff's Appreciation--Arrival of the Red Cross Staff--A Novel Candlestick--Great Explosion--The Erzeroum...
18. CHAPTER II.Prince Czetwertinski--A Romantic Career--His First Commission--A Retrospect--The History of a Noble Pole--From Monte Carlo to Brisbane--A Prince as a Deck Hand on a Schooner--A...
33. CHAPTER XVI.We fly from the Widow--Arrival at Constantinople--English Philanthropy--The Baroness Burdett-Coutts--First Acquaintance with a well known Actress--Osman Pasha back again--The Tu...
25. did. It was the most marked display of reasoning power in the lowercreatures that ever forced itself upon my notice. The only way that I could baffle the voracious crowd was by moving my bed out into the open air, and this I did.
22. CHAPTER VI.Sending away the Wounded--Osman Effendi--We perform Operations--Amputating Fingers--A Warning to Malingerers--Trial and Execution--Discipline in the Town--Round the Bazaars afte...
24. CHAPTER VIII.A Circassian and a Pig--A Call on Olivier Pain--His Photographs surprise me--A View of Sydney Harbour in Plevna--The Story of a French Journalist--A Lonely Death in the Soudan--...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Third Battle of Plevna--Turkish Genius for Fortification--How the Redoubts were built--Description of an Earthwork--Sleeping Underground--Living Men in Holes in the Clay--Th...
7. CHAPTER VII.Talks with my Patients--A Candid Kurd--Grim Confessions--How he killed his Enemy--Dr. Robert's Cave of Refuge--He loses his Dinner--The Spy's Death--Canards in the Town--The Sec...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A Circassian and a Pig--A Call on Olivier Pain--His Photographs surprise me--A View of Sydney Harbour in Plevna--The Story of a French Journalist--A Lonely Death in the Soudan--...
4. CHAPTER IV.Declaration of War with Russia--An Ominous Silence--The First Shot--An Interrupted Luncheon--Under Fire at last--Disappearance of the Inhabitants--A Move Underground--Running th...
1. CHAPTER I. PAGEAutobiographical--My Wanderjahr--First Glimpse of Servians--Rome--A Prospective Mother-in-law--Sad Result of eating Chops--A Spanish Poet--The Chance of a Lifetime--How I seized...
5. CHAPTER V.The Town of Plevna--A Natural Stronghold--_Le Petit Village_--The Gypsies' Warning--Dr. Robert--An Expatriated Bacchanalian--We attend a Banquet--The First Battle of Plevna--An...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Convalescence--_Membra Disjecta_--Mortality among the Medical Staff--"En haut Mystère, en bas Misère"--Arrival of Dr. Stoker and Dr. Stiven--A Desperate Journey--In the Hands of...
12. CHAPTER XII.Life in Constantinople--Sir Collingwood Dickson--Visit to the Seraskierat--Roving Englishmen--A Typical Adventurer--War Correspondents--General Berdan--Colonel Valentine Baker--...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The Scourge of Typhus--Pyæmia and Pneumonia--Terrible Cold--Outposts frozen to death--Fall of Kars--The March of the Wounded--One Hundred and Eighty Miles over the Snow--Ghastly...
10. CHAPTER X.Lauri and the Sausage--A Diet of "Poiled Peans"--The Ways of a _Parlementaire_--Politeness on the Battle-field--Indefatigable Burrowing by the Turks--Skobeleff's Annoyance--A Vi...
2. CHAPTER II.Prince Czetwertinski--A Romantic Career--His First Commission--A Retrospect--The History of a Noble Pole--From Monte Carlo to Brisbane--A Prince as a Deck Hand on a Schooner--A...
11. CHAPTER XI.Some of my Hospital Cases--A Death from Jaundice--Small-pox and Typhoid Fever--Hospital Gangrene--Waiting for the Burial Parties--Horrible Depression--I am slightly wounded--Tur...
3. CHAPTER III.Off to Widdin--Strong Fortifications--Osman Pasha in Command--The Kalafatians at Work--Dr. Black--A Discreditable Englishman--Shooting on Sight--An Arrest and a Release--"Life o...
16. CHAPTER XVI.We fly from the Widow--Arrival at Constantinople--English Philanthropy--The Baroness Burdett-Coutts--First Acquaintance with a well known Actress--Osman Pasha back again--The Tu...
15. CHAPTER XV.Helping Sick Russians--A Squalid Scene--Work of the Russian Doctors--Melikoff's Appreciation--Arrival of the Red Cross Staff--A Novel Candlestick--Great Explosion--The Erzeroum...
6. CHAPTER VI.Sending away the Wounded--Osman Effendi--We perform Operations--Amputating Fingers--A Warning to Malingerers--Trial and Execution--Discipline in the Town--Round the Bazaars afte...